Breaking Barriers: How Startups Are Transforming Digital Healthcare

April 24 @ 11am – 2pm ET

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This month’s Symposium (April 2025) will focus on “Breaking Barriers: Transforming Digital Healthcare.” Industry leaders and innovators will gather to explore the use of digital health in memory care, wellness, ADHD care, vision care, and access to cardiac rehabilitation.

Speakers

President

National Director, Product Innovation

Associate Director, Social Media, Podcast and Virtual Assistant/ Conversational AI

VP of Partnerships

Chief Nursing Officer

CoFounder & Managing Director

CoFounder & CEO

CTO & COO

Co-Founder & COO

Director Global Product Management

President & COO

Media Advisor

Co-founder & CEO

Chief Growth Officer

Agenda

10:55 AM

Introduction

Stan Kachnowski, Chair, HITLAB

11:00 AM

Building the Future of Reproductive Health: Startup Partnerships & New Frontiers

Amy West, Principal, Advisory Services & Chair for the Women’s Health Tech Initiative, HITLAB
Ambreen Molitor, National Director, Product Innovation, Planned Parenthood

11:15 AM

Reimagining Memory Care: Multi-Sensory Engagement for Meaningful Connection

Alban Maino, CEO, MemoryLane TV

11:30 AM

From Vision to Venture: Transforming Wellness Through Digital Health Innovation

Jolene Anderson, CoFounder/Managing Director: VectorPoint Impact Partners

11:40 AM

Innovating Healthcare: A Fireside Chat on Sana’s Breakthrough in Pain Relief and Digital Health

Richard Hanbury, CEO, Sana Health

11:50 AM

Real-Time. AI & Automation. No-Code. 90% Less Time & Costs. HUGE Impact.

Doug Goldstein, Chief Growth Officer, Medcurio

12:00 PM

From Trials to Reality: A Sneak Peek into AI Method Validation

Unika Alexander, Co-founder & CEO, The Proficient Lab
12:10 PM

Soliddd Progress Report: Trials, Production, and Path to Market

Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Innovation
Neal Weinstock, CEO, Soliddd
12:25 PM

Rewiring ADHD Care: A New Era of Data-Driven Brain Health

Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Innovation
Adi Diner, Co-Founder & CEO, iFocus Health
12:40 PM

Empowering Health Access: Bridging Gaps with Flexible Payment Plans and Digital Innovation

Gaurav Gupta, Co-founder & CTO/COO, MyPhysicianPlan
12:55 PM

ECG as a Broad Digital Biomarker & its Potential to Transform Healthcare

Bryant Powell, Associate Director, Social Media, Podcast and Virtual Assistant/ Conversational AI, Bristol Myers Squibb
Sadeq Ali, Co-Founder & COO, AccurKardia
1:10 PM

Quantifying the ROI on Digital Health/Health care AI – Challenges and approaches

Amy West, Principal, Advisory Services & Chair for the Women’s Health Tech Initiative, HITLAB
Padma Ayodhimani, Director Global Product Management, Bayer
1:25 PM

AI, Impact, and the Road Ahead: Inside AHS’s Healthcare Revolution

Robert Holton, President & COO, Actual Healthcare Solutions
Jim Payne, Media Advisor, Actual Healthcare Solutions
1:40 PM

Improving Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation and Chronic Care Management Through Digital Health

Amy West, Principal, Advisory Services & Chair for the Women’s Health Tech Initiative, HITLAB
Ashley Sanfilippo, Vice President of Partnerships, RecoveryPlus.health
Jenny Martin, Chief Nursing Officer/Family Nurse Practitioner, Recovery Plus.health
1:55 PM

Closing

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Merck Global Health Innovation

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (MGHIF) is a growth investor partnering with innovative digital health and data science companies that facilitate and optimize biopharmaceutical operations with the goal of improving patient care.

FFF Enterprises

Founded in 1988, FFF Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held, multibillion-dollar specialty pharmaceutical distributor and diversified healthcare company. FFF Enterprises is the parent company to leading specialty pharmacy Nufactor, Inc., as well as InCircle, LLC and RightNow Inventory™. Our partners include global pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturers, prestigious healthcare systems, large and independent retail pharmacies, and leading alternate care sites. Our nationwide commerce is supported by a network of distribution and infusion pharmacy locations utilizing world-class technology and cybersecurity solutions.

Information Mediary Corp

IMC is the global leader in smart medication adherence solutions, having supplied over a million units to the clinical trials and research markets. IMC manufactures iOS and Android NFC-certified Med-ic Smart Blister Packages, eCAP Smart Medication Bottles and the temperature-aware Med-ic Smart Syringe Pack. IMC is active in the AI-enabled digital health field, offering its HIPAA compliant, secure CertiScan clinical research adherence cloud. IMC’s latest Lilipond AI project is aimed at detecting opiate abuse early to avoid dependence and addiction.

FINN Partners

FINN Partners is more than an integrated marketing agency. We are smart, passionate communications advocates on a mission to make a difference in the world. We change the way brands relate to their markets. The way companies are positioned and perceived. The way causes become movements. How stakeholders view stakes. How great stories are told and shared to earn attention. Where leads are generated and results tracked. We’ve even changed the way people within an agency collaborate and pull together for the greater good. Our work reflects our values. What we do is how we do things. Whether inside our walls or on the front lines of business transformation and social change, we stand together to create meaningful and measurable impact on the world around us.